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Copernicus's theory that the earth revolved around the sun was arrant heterodoxy at a time when the earth was thought to be the center of the universe.
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Should there be any limits to the embrace of heterodoxy?
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Hard to believe it’s only been two years since presidential candidate Trump abruptly canceled a CPAC appearance amid reports of a large walkout to protest his ideological heterodoxy.
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Even as Egyptian authorities play to the dystopian script by attempting to punish the author for his heterodoxies, his book memorably celebrates the country’s underground seams of freedom and individual expression.
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Likewise, the contest isn’t a race between a liberal or a moderate, or between heterodoxy and orthodoxy.
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Self-sacrifice was exalted in all fascist and revolutionary movements, but in the Legion, martyrdom was virtually required, accompanied by theological heterodoxy.
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Ditto the hysterical discussions undoubtedly now arising from an anodyne piece of climate heterodoxy by the paper’s newest columnist,...
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error, fallacy, falsehood, misbelief, misconception, myth;
apostasy, defection, infidelity, schism, sectarianism, separatism;
deviance, deviation, iconoclasm, unconventionality;
disagreement, discord, dissension (also dissention);
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